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Unlike Las Vegas, what happens at the edge doesn’t stay at the edge. And that s half the challenge.
People commonly think of edge computing as a glorified form of data acquisition or a local digital process control. In reality, edge is a lot more than both of those.
It’s true that edge involves many data sources, usually at geo-distributed locations. But keep in mind, it’s the aggregate of that data that holds the key to value and insights. Analysis of the combined data is carried out at core data centers, and actions guided by the resulting insights often need to be carried out at edge locations. Therefore, a surprising challenge of edge systems is efficient traffic not only